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3.00 Credits
This seminar is a practicum designed to help students become skillful in the use of archetypal astrological methods of analysis-particularly natal and transit analysis-for understanding the timing and character of a wide range of psychological conditions and biographical events. Classes will be devoted to detailed weekly analyses of one's own personal transits as well as representative transits for significant cultural figures and their major biographical experiences. Attention will also be paid to the larger historical context of personal transits, as reflected in major past, present, and upcoming outer-planet alignments. The focus throughout the course is on articulating and becoming more conscious of the archetypal dynamics of human life, expressed both psychologically and in external events, and reflected in the coinciding planetary alignments.
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3.00 Credits
The emergence of modern ways of knowing and especially of modern science led to a secular-sacred split in much of Western civilization and thereafter in industrial societies around the planet. This split manifests in a number of ways, ranging from debates about education and the rights of animals to outright warfare. Teilhard articulates evolution as a physical-psychic creative process suffused with divine presence. His synthesis, taken together with the work of Alfred North Whitehead, Sri Aurobindo, Edgar Morin, Carl Jung, and Rudolf Steiner, provides a foundation for the first truly planetary cosmology.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The first of five classes is given to a reading of Emerson's Nature and a brief consideration of the biographies of a few of Emerson's contemporariesgiven in Menand's Metaphysical Club. The middle three classes are given to a study of the core writings of three classic American philosophers-Peirce, James, and Dewey-along with Menand's thorough account of their entwined biographies. The last class is devoted to a discussion ofessays on pragmatism in the second half of the 20th century.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This brief course offers an introduction to the ideas of James Hillman, the principal founder of archetypal psychology and one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary psychology and culture. From its beginnings in the late 1960s, archetypal psychology has brought creative vitality and brilliant insight to the field of depth psychology, at once affirming fundamental elements in the Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives while sharply critiquing others. Above all, it has called for depth psychology to move beyond the consulting room to engage the larger cultural, historical, and ecological issues of our time.
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3.00 Credits
Gnosticism was a mystical, esoteric form of early Christianity, with links to the Mystery cults, ancient Near Eastern mythology, Neoplatonic speculation, and astrological and alchemical traditions. Orthodox Christians in the first few centuries violently suppressed the Gnostic schools and systematically destroyed Gnostic texts. As a result, the Gnostic teachings were all but lost for nearly 2,000 years. However, in 1945 a chance discovery brought to light a complete library of Gnostic writings. In this course we will use these writings and other sources to reconstruct the teachings, practices, and history of the Gnostic religion. In doing so, we will be undertaking an intellectual descent into the deeper layers of the Western psyche, where the suppressed Gnostic vision lies dormant but-if it can be brought back into consciousness-holds out the potentialfor restoring a vital missing element in the symbolic life of Western civilization.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course explores the work of several well-known contemporary female sculptors and painters who create organic form and engagement as their primary expression. The work will be situated in the history of organic art within the history of modern and contemporary art. The works engage with body, nature, biological abstraction, and ecological dynamics, as well as an implicit spiritual dimension. Various aspects of female subjectivity will be discussed.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
The objective in this course is to explore the impact that the planetary crisis may be having on the human soul. This course will bring into dialogue two lines of inquiry that often appear separately in the literature: (1) reincarnation and the evolution of the soul, and (2) the dynamics of humanity's collective transformation. Synthesizing these two perspectives takes us into the nuts and bolts of the evolutionary pivot that the soul may be undergoing at the individual level while the planet undergoes its collective transformation. If the planetary crisis is the cocoon, what is emerging in history may be the Diamond Soul. Together we will examine the idea that the size and scale of the transformation taking place globally may be mirroring an equally profound shift taking place inside the soul.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course will provide a brief introduction to new paradigms and practices in the growing field of reconciliation, and how those practices are applied in specific projects in India and South Africa. Emphasis will be on spiritual dimensions of peacemaking and their practical implementation in real-world activism. Students will engage in contemplative and experiential practices as related to the Power of Reconciliation work developed by the Satyana Institute.
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3.00 Credits
Enacted in the spirit of dialogical inquiry, this co-taught course explores the perennial mystery of the relation of duality-whether in the form of dualism, polarity, opposition, difference, or some other form of twoness-to the non-dual (of which, paradoxically, there are at least two forms). Selected readings from Eastern and Western philosophical, religious, and literary texts serve as the starting point for reflection and meditation on such related topics as truth and the nature of the real, God or the divine, good and evil, time and eternity, the nature of nature, consciousness, and the self.
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3.00 Credits
Alfred North Whitehead's unique philosophy offers us a coherent understanding of experience that allows us to solve the mind/body problem and to account for evolutionary emergence. It is an approach to the re-enchantment of the world that is also a profoundly satisfying philosophy of science. It offers deep insights into psychology, and establishes a metaphysics that is open to empathy, telepathy, supernormal human functioning, life after death, and reincarnation. This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the many-faceted thought of this great thinker. It will include a survey of the development of Whitehead's thought, of his basic metaphysical ideas, and of his cosmological speculations.
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